Digital Learning Officer

at  Kings College London

Job id: 094845. Salary: £32,979 - £36,396 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 27 August 2024. Closing date: 03 September 2024.
Business unit: Students & Education. Department: Student Careers Engagement.
Contact details: Ben Brown. Ben.brown@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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About Us
The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.
King’s Careers & Employability seeks to enable and empower students, recent alumni, and researchers from all disciplines and walks of life, to gain the knowledge, skills and experiences they need to effectively navigate their lives and careers after university and achieve lifelong success. The Digital Learning Officer role sits within the Student Careers & Engagement team which focuses on increasing engagement and diversifying the ways students can engage with the department.
We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.
About the role
Digital Learning Officer role is to ensure KC&E provides comprehensive, high quality, and up-to-date information & resources to students and graduates through our digital platforms, including the website and virtual learning environments (VLEs). The role holder will be expected to source careers-related content in order to create, curate and refine a diverse range of digital careers information.
The role holder will be expected to work closely with colleagues across the KC&E to support in creating content for KC&E activities. The role holder will also be expected to work closely with colleagues to ensure activities are done in line with priority needs and the student voice in mind.
This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to develop new and exciting digital resources, and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in digital content creation. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in increasing student engagement.
We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role
This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in an IT or creative digital role. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training
• Great interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to diversify communication style according to audience.
• Excellent time management skills to manage projects effectively, meet deadlines, and handle competing tasks and priorities.
• Ability to build strong relationships with a range of different people at different levels to collaborate on shared objectives.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and feel confident in taking responsibility for projects.
• Ability to work autonomously and without direct supervision to ensure projects are completed to deadline.
• Experience creating educational digital resources

Desirable criteria

• Experience working with Moodle or similar VLE Platforms
• Experience with audio and video editing
• Knowledge of the graduate labour market

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required can be found in the attached job description which is provided on the next page.
Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s.We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews are due to be held on 10th September
This role does not meet the requirements of the Home Office and therefore we are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.

Please refer the Job description for details